Buckling

Definitions

1. The act of fastening a buckle.
2. A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
3. Smoked herring.
4. A folding into hills and valleys.
5. The action of giving in (slightly) to pressure or stress by developing a bulge, bending or kinking (with the eventual risk of collapsing).

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Examples

“Engineers decided not to use⟳ hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure⟳.”

“1994, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living, Ninth Edition, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 715, If you do have⟳ extra milk, then by all means raise⟳ your extra bucklings and cull doelings for meat.”

“1994, Mary C. Smith and David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 429, The newborn doe kids destined to become⟳ habitual aborters (and the buckling that carries the trait) are above average in weight and have⟳ a very fine haircoat.”

“1997, Ruth Schubarth, “Born Backwards”, in Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell M. Collier, and Nancy Curtis (eds.), Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write⟳ from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 161, I milk the goats and put⟳ wethers (the castrated bucklings) in the freezer with ducks, chickens, rabbits, and lambs.”

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